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The Bakken Boom and the New Wild West
A Young Geologist Perspective, by R. Tyler Powers Like many of my colleagues, I have found myself in awe of the drastically changing energy landscape around me. Both technologically and economically, the world of energy is not what it used to be. Precious resources that allow the modern world to exist are becoming harder to [...]
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The Oil Field Work is a Human Too !
Every day I open the paper or click on a link and read that we had to close this down because of the oil workers. Now we have to limit who goes into a community center because of an oil worker. This is starting to sound like an unappreciative sector of America. What is an [...]
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Bad Roads In the Bakken
A few years back you could sail on down the roads in Western North Dakota without fear of losing a tire or having the bottom of your transmission pan abruptly removed by the highway. The Bakken Oil boom has been a mixed blessing of plentiful work and lots of money. However, workers are moving to [...]
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No More Ghost Towns
When I first moved to the Montana and North Dakota region back in the late 1990’s I was saddened by the number of abandoned homes sitting in ghost towns along the Missouri River. My family would joke that I had moved to God’s country with my family. I just smiled and said I loved how [...]
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Sidney Struggles with Development
“The more fracking the more traffic” Leslie Messer, Economic Development Director for the City of Sidney, told members of the Big Sky Economic Development tour group. Sidney is just a few miles from the North Dakota border, but still very much in the heart of the oil field action. Confronted with impossible demands on their [...]
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The New American Dream
With nothing but $600 in his pocket, a 33 year old unemployed construction worker, husband, and father of a 5 year old headed for the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota last summer. That $600 represented the last of the family savings and it was barely enough to buy the gas and food for the [...]
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Plan First inorder to Prosper in the Bakken
The oilfields of North Dakota’s, better know at the Bakken, have become a magnet for many looking for work. But, even with the glut of jobs; doing a little advance homework will make getting hired easier and help you find a place to live other than the back seat of your car. A clean driving [...]
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5 Personality Traits You Need to Change
Let’s face it; everyone has a few personality traits that can be a bit of a…pain in the neck. But for the most part, they’re harmful. So you don’t like it when your green beans touch your pork-chop, or you tend to talk a little too long when you’re on the phone, it’s probably not [...]
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Bye Bye Bakken
We say good bye to our Bakken immigrant as he bids farewell to the oil fields and heads back home to be with his family. Be sure to check out the series of videos he shot and shared on You Tube about coming to the Bakken in search of an economic opportunity and leaving a [...]
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5 Ways to Facilitate Teamwork
Fact: you need teamwork. In order for any organization (a place of business, your family, a charity, etc.) to run successfully, its members need to understand the concept of effective teamwork. And therein appears the essential word: effective. It’s one thing to say you are running a team, but it’s quite another to run that team effectively. Here [...]
